tonight, they're heading the martin luther king concert series in brooklyn. you're here this morning. what took you so long to get back together? >> time just went too fast. >> we talked about doing solo careers and coming back and doing duets. we never knew it would take so long. 15 years. >> 15 years. >> you didn't mean for it to be this long? >> didn't mean no. >> why now? >> we finally got in the studio. we got in there. >> there's some songs that i wrote years ago that i saved saying we'll do this we get back together, these are the songs we will do. and they have so much meaning now, you know and where some people need to smile. some people need to look beyond the problems that we're facing and understand that there's an answer to all of those things. so music has a way of giving those answers. >> there are some hard times out there for a lot of folks. and you all have had challenging times these last few years. the patriarch of the family. >> yes. >> pops he passed away last year. >> yeah. >> he knew about this reunion? >> oh yea. >> what did he say? >